David Montejano

David Montejano at the 2010 Texas Book Festival.

David Montejano (born 1948) is an American sociologist, and historian.

Life

He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, and from Yale University with a M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology. He taught at the University of Texas at Austin, University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of New Mexico. He is Chair of the Center for Latino Policy Research at University of California, Berkeley.^[1]

In 1995, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. From 1992-1998, he was State Commissioner of the Texas Commission on the Arts.

Awards

• 1987–1988 National Endowment for the Humanities Resident Scholar ^[2]
• 1988 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
• Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Fellow, at Stanford
• School of American Research Resident Scholar in Santa Fe
• Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellow.

Works

• Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981 (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture). University of Texas Press. 2010. ISBN 9780292722903. 
• Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, ed (2005). "The Beating of Private Aguirre". Mexican Americans & World War II. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292706811. http://books.google.com/books?id=EbLCgc6PulEC&pg=PA41&dq=David+Montejano&ei=SdMCS4feHYW2NIy_zIQP#v=onepage&q=David%20Montejano&f=false. 
• David Montejano, ed (1999). Chicano politics and society in the late twentieth century. University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292752153. http://books.google.com/books?id=XlmTwLYjThcC&pg=PP1&dq=David+Montejano&ei=SdMCS4feHYW2NIy_zIQP#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Anglos and Mexicans in the making of Texas, 1836-1986. University of Texas Press. 1987. ISBN 9780292775961. http://books.google.com/books?id=YnUKT4f_fZQC&dq=David+Montejano&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=Rs1dUnIVIw&sig=W7EvR7g5VHmvOz6gcXnO3RIqphE&hl=en&ei=XM0CS4iODdGMnQfe1Khq&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CC4Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• A journey through Mexican Texas, 1900-1930: the making of a segregated society. Yale University. 1982. 
• Race, labor repression, and capitalist agriculture: notes from South Texas, 1920-1930. University of California, Institute for the Study of Social Change. 1977. 

References

1. ^ http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/mellon/overview/fellows.html
2. ^ http://sarweb.org/index.php?resident_scholar_david_montejano

External links

• Sarah Lewis (03-11-99). "UT prof. discusses wake of admissions decision". The Michigan Daily. http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1999/mar/03-11-99/news/news6.html. 

Persondata
Name	Montejano, David
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1948
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death